1969 – 1973
Reformed in 1975

Mick Kitchener: Lead Guitar
Stefan Dowbenko: Bass, Vocals
Keith White: Drums, Vocals

All had been with local bands before coming together in 1969.

Played regularly on the local rock scene and also supporting some national acts like Wishbone Ash, The Groundhogs and East of Eden. Their local contemporaries were Colin Staples, Hogweed, Centralis, Pancho, Barracuda,Today, Anvil, Dead Lizard, Emery Chase, Riff, Dragonfly, Lazy Jake and early Gaffa.

They recorded a demo album in July/August 1971 called “Unadopted” and sent a copy to a London agency. Others were sold locally. My guess is, that this album was on cassette. Also, in the summer of 1971 they advertised for a lead vocalist. Whether this came to fruition isn’t known.

They reformed in 1975.

I saw them at the Trent embankment in 1975. They did a cover of “Interstellar Overdrive” by Pink Floyd which was quite impressive to me as a “Syd’s Floyd” fan.

mentioned by Harry Stephenson in a Plummet Airlines Terrascope magazine interview.

http://www.terrascope.co.uk/MyBackPages/Plummets.pdf

PT: Where did the various members of Plummet Airlines get together?

H: We met through art college. What happened was, we had to make this film at college and for the film we required a band. We got hold of this local band called Orphan, we used to call them ‘Awful’ because they really couldn’t play rock & roll. We couldn’t either, but we were better than them so we formed our own band.

Harry subsequently told me that they weren’t “Alful” actually. It was just a sort of a joke. They were pretty good.